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Displaying 1661 - 1665 of 2117Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscapes, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity
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Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world with a large rural population of small-holder, low income farmers. As the demand for meat and dairy increases, livestock farming continues to expand onto land that is not appropriate for farming, causing environmental damage through forest clearance, loss of biodiversity and land degradation. Different national initiatives aim to encourage more intensive and sustainable farming that support farmers' livelihoods and protect the environment and its rich biodiversity. Silvo-pastoral farming is one of those initiatives as it combines forestry and grazing. However due to cultural and social factors, in combination with possible economic and agronomic influences, uptake remains low and deforestation continues. This interdisciplinary project brings together cultural geography, behavioural economics and ecological expertise from both the UK and Colombia to investigate the cultural and socio-economic reasons for low adoption of silvo-pastoral livestock farming practices that can support livelihood and protect biodiversity. Through farmer interviews and focus groups and existing socio-economic data sets we will develop and test effective mechanisms through dissemination, farmer to farmer engagement and government policy that promote effective uptake and implementation of best practice. Furthermore we will undertake a large scale field trial and quantify the scale dependent benefits of silvo-pastoral practices and forest protection on biodiversity and ecosystem services to provide landscape scale policy relevant guidance on the optimal approaches to promote forest protection and silvo-pastoral implementation at the landscape scale, beyond just the individual farm. These approaches will help sustainably intensify livestock production whilst protecting forests and other natural areas in order to support economic development, biodiversity protection and social wellbeing in Colombia.
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The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Sustainable Organisation for Land Rights and Agrarian Reform, continuation
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Programm zur Unterstützung der Landrechtsbewegung in Bangladesch, Fortführung
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Förderung der armen ländlichen Bevölkerung im Nordwesten Bangladeschs zur Durchsetzung ihrer Rechte auf Khas-Grundstücke und staatliche Unterstützung.
Civic Engagement Alliance in Bangladesh
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Strategic Partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ir Amim - Land rights in East Jerusalem
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Core support to Ir Amim for their work with the protection of Palestinian rights to land and socio-economic development in East Jerusalem. Ir Amim is an Israeli NGO based in Jerusalem that monitors settlement expansion and Palestinian land rights in the city. The organization was founded in the year 2000 with the aim of supporting Jerusalem as a current home and a future shared capital for both Israelis and Palestinians. Continued expansion of settlements in and around Jerusalem, demolition and eviction threats against Palestinians and the challenging of the status quo in relation to the Temple Mount / al-Haram al-Sharif make it increasingly difficult for Palestinians living in East Jerusalem and undermines a future two-state solution. Ir Amim’s work aims to counteract these events and to promote the Palestinian people’s socio-economic rights in East Jerusalem.Ir Amim has received grants from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 2009. For the past five years, the support has been between SEK 500,000 and SEK 850,000 per year but in 2021 an increase was granted for a total grant of 1.2 MSEK. The MFA considers the activities well implemented and reported and has a favorable opinion of working with Ir Amim. Given the strategic significance and long term commitment to Ir Amim, MFA has asked Sida to consider taking over the support to the organization. This would enable a more long term support that will allow the organization better opportunity for planning ahead. It would also allow supporting capacity building measures for the organization. Sida intends to provide core support to Ir Amim, as has also been the support-form that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has used in the last few years. Sida proposes to raise the level of support to Ir Amim to 2 MSEK per year for a period of 3 years. That would equal a bit more than 10% of the organization's total budget and make Sida the 3rd largest donor.Sida's assessment is that the work of Ir Amim is aligned to the Swedish strategy for Palestine and well complements the Human Rights portfolio. The Swedish Strategy for development cooperation with Palestine 2020-2024 highlights East Jerusalem as a prioritised geographical area and the support to Ir Amim responds to the expectation expressed in the strategy that Sida should be prepared to "respond to small scale initiatives of a strategic nature including initiatives aimed at following developments regarding settlement expansion".
Objectives
Objective 1: Safeguarding the conditions for an agreed two state solution and the character of Jerusalem as the present home and future capital of the two peoples, while impeding unilateral and formal and de-facto annexation steps. Objective 2: Protecting the individual and collective home of Palestinians in East Jerusalem including their physical and communal space, socio-economic rights and their right to the city. Objective 3: Local and international target audiences are informed, mobilized and subsequently act with regard to on-the-ground developments that affect the current reality in Jerusalem and the prospect for a negotiated solution.
U.S. Forest Resource Management
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(USAID Central Africa Regional): ..The Forest Resource Management Activity will provide technical assistance to national governments, regional institutions, and civil society actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, and potentially other countries in the region. The objectives are to scale up and institutionalize land use planning and strengthen community forest management and livelihoods, forest monitoring, and institutional capacity at regional, national, provincial and local levels. This activity will a) develop robust and transparent land use and forest management policies, regulatory frameworks, and planning processes as the bedrock of sustainable forest management; b) improve access to and use of data, tools and advanced technologies for forest policy and management; c) advance dynamic forest economies supporting expanded community-based forest management; and d) strengthen institutional capacity for sustainable forest management at regional, national and local government levels. ..This activity will contribute to advancing the U.S. government priorities in Central Africa designed to maintain the ecological integrity of the humid forest ecosystem of the Congo Basin, which is vital to regional stability, a U.S. foreign policy priority. It contributes to the Joint Strategic Plan (JSP) Strategic Objective 2.2: (Promote healthy, educated and productive populations in partner countries to drive inclusive and sustainable development, open new markets and support U.S. prosperity and security objectives) by protecting natural resources critical to long term, sustainable growth, and food and water security. Furthermore, this activity will build the capacity of regional governments to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions for the Paris Climate Agreement and to access global climate funding mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)